November 7, 2005
- Guitar Care & Changing Strings
The best way to clean your fretboard is to loosen all the strings & pull them off the fretboard, to either side of the nut. Then use the finest steel wool, grade 0000, to wipe away the oil, grit & dirt that accumulates on the fingerboard and around the frets.
This and other tips on maintaining [...]
October 7, 2005
- Left-hand Exercise
Here's an excellent exercise for your left-hand. It's one I used a lot with my students. This is a perfect exercise to use as a 'warm-up' before you play songs on the guitar. Just click the image below and that will open up a new URL which contains the video.
June 18, 2005
- 6 Picking Patterns + Writing Songs
I often get emails from guitarists that are stuck in a rut using the same strumming pattern for every song. Here are 6 finger-picking patterns that you can use with 4/4 time songs. I wanted to teach them to you with a song, but I can't use popular worship songs because most are copyrighted.
You can [...]
May 24, 2005
- Welcome to the Worship Guitar Class Blog
Welcome to the First Edition of the Worship Guitar Class Blog! This offers
an easy format for getting web pages up plus an opportunity for you to respond…
including to other guitar students. For those unfamiliar with a 'Blog,'
after
each entry you can click the 'comments' button at the end of the article to
write
a response to either the [...] - 'How To Use A Capo' video
Last year, when I polled the Worship Guitar Class Newsletter list, a number of people wanted to know how to use a capo. Here's a brief 1 minute video with the basics, plus how to make a capo with common household objects.
In the next Volume of Worship Guitar Class I'll be showing you how to [...]